X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.